With improvements in echocardiography and imaging modalities, the need for diagnostic
cardiac catheterization for structural heart diseases in children has considerably dwindled …

The use of catheterization for the diagnosis of congenital heart disease has decreased
dramatically in the last decade. The development of two-dimensional Doppler …

The nature of invasive study of the heart has changed dramatically. Catheterization was
initially developed to understand the anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular …

Over the last 5 years there has been a sea—change in the imaging pathways used to
investigate patients with congenital heart disease. Prior to 2003 in our own institution …

Cardiac catheterization provides information on the anatomy and haemodynamics of
congenital and acquired cardiac conditions in children. With significant advances in …

Diagnostic cardiac catheterization continues to be a valuable tool in the assessment of
congenital and acquired heart diseases in children. Despite the risks posed by radiation, it …

The role of the cardiac catheterization laboratory has evolved along with the field of pediatric
cardiology. In the 1940s and 1950s, the laboratory was used primarily to increase …

Cardiac Catheterization and Imaging is an all-encompassing, richly illustrated guide to
cardiac catheterisation and catheter-based intervention, from the foetus to the geriatric …

Although the utility of diagnostic cardiac catheterization in the clinical setting has diminished
over the last years, due to the emergence of noninvasive imaging modalities, such as …

Cardiac catheterization has a long and illustrious history, beginning in 1929 when Werner
Forssmann, a surgical resident and future urologist, performed the first cardiac …